Other members have included his brother Tim Finn, Australians Paul Hester, Nick Seymour and Peter Jones and Americans Mark Hart and Matt Sherrod.

Neil Finn ( vocals, guitar, piano ) and drummer Paul Hester ( ex-The Cheks, Deckchairs Overboard ) were former members of New Zealand band Split Enz, which spent part of 1975-6 in Australia and several years in England.

L to R: Paul Hester, Neil Finn, Nick Seymour. Thanks to their Split Enz connection, the newly formed Crowded House had an established Australasian fanbase.

Crowded House were mid way through a US tour when Paul Hester quit the band on 15 April 1994.

Paul Hester returned to the band to play drums on the three new tracks.

The concert featured the line-up of Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart and Paul Hester.

Paul Hester joined The Finn Brothers on stage for three songs at their Palais Theatre show in Melbourne at the end of 2004.

Paul Hester worked with children's entertainers The Wiggles, playing " Paul the Cook ".

Finn and Hester performed " Not the Girl You Think You Are " with Largest Living Things, before being joined by Seymour for " Sister Madly " and a version of Paul Kelly's " Leaps and Bounds ", which also featured Kelly on vocals.

On 26 March 2005 Paul Hester was found dead, after hanging himself from a tree in a park near his home in Melbourne.

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* 1959 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer ( Crowded House and Split Enz ) ( d. 2005 )

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

Paul Hester, late drummer of Crowded House, once appeared in a VB advert.

While his brother Tim Finn left for England, Neil was the founder of Crowded House with Split Enz's final drummer Paul Hester in 1985.

Finn formed a new band called The Mullanes ( Mullane being both his middle name and his mother's maiden name ) with Split Enz drummer Paul Hester, guitarist Craig Hooper of The Reels and bassist Nick Seymour ( younger brother of Hunters & Collectors leader Mark Seymour ), whom Neil had met on the final Split Enz tour.

In January 2007, it was announced that Crowded House were reforming with Neil, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart and new drummer Matt Sherrod ( following the suicide of Paul Hester in 2005 ).

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

* General Paul Hester USAF graduated from West Point High School

Paul Newell Hester ( 8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005 ) was an Australian musician and television personality ; he was the drummer for the related bands Split Enz and Crowded House.

After leaving Crowded House, Paul Hester appeared on many TV and radio shows in Australia and opened a cafe / restaurant named Beach House Cafe with fellow Melbourne musician Joe Camilleri in Elwood Beach in Melbourne.

* 1959 – Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer

* Adrian Paul ( born 1959 ), English actor

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

But the study of these curves was first developed in 1959 by mathematician Paul de Casteljau using de Casteljau's algorithm, a numerically stable method to evaluate Bézier curves.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

* 1959 – Paul Vautin, Australian rugby player

Howard Dearstyne, Paul Theobald, 1959.

* 1959 – Adrian Paul, English actor

* 1959 – Paul Black, American singer ( L. A.

* 1959 – Paul Farmer, American anthropologist

* Paul Farmer, U. S. ( b. 1959 )

In the late 1950s, his work in films took the shape of scoring for soundtracks, notably Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), with James Stewart, in which he appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues ( 1961 ), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

His agent, Paul Reynolds sent overwhelmingly negative criticism of Wright's four-hundred page " Island of Hallucinations " manuscript in February 1959.

One such dancer was Paul Taylor, who, in 1959, performed in Balanchine's Episodes.

* French — Baival, C., Paul Ternoise, and Albert Verse: Pierrot's Choice ( 1950 ); Marceau, Marcel: Pierrot of Montmartre ( 1952 ; music by Joseph Kosma ); The Mime Sime: The Fantasies of Pierrot ( 2007 ); Prévert, Jacques: Baptiste ( 1959 ; choreography by Jean-Louis Barrault ).

Paul McGann ( born 14 November 1959 ) is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role.

* The Oxford Companion to French Literature, Sir Paul Harvey and J. E. Heseltine, eds., ( Oxford, 1959 ) ISBN 0-19-866104-5

Paul Anka at Gröna Lund, Stockholm 1959.

In May 1959, Colonel ( later General ) Paul K. Carlton assumed command of the recently activated 4126th Strategic Wing.

The cornerstone reads " Immanuel Lutheran School 1959 ", but the school is now a joint effort of Immanuel, Bethlehem, St. Paul ( Blue Point ) and Zion Lutheran Churches, all of which are within the Missouri Synod division of the Lutheran Church.

* Nancy Shevell ( born 1959 ), third wife of Paul McCartney and a leader in the trucking industry.

* 1958 to 1959 Paul B.

Fentanyl was first synthesized by Paul Janssen under the label of his relatively newly formed Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1959.